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LEGAL DISCOURSE IN THE ASPECT OF INSTITUTIONAL SPECIFICITY: LINGUISTIC ASPECT // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2020. Issue 5 (211). P. 96-102

Introduction. The article highlights the specifics of the legal discourse in the aspect of its institutional interdependence and space conceptualization of metaphor terminology. The aim of the article is to identify the interrelation between the SPACE (horizontal/vertical) conceptualization of the metaphorical terminology of the Russian legal discourse and the horizontal line classification by branches of law and the vertical hierarchical system of the Russian legislation system. Material and methods. The legal discourse notion and its specificity is considered through the prism of legislative system branch classification accepted in the Russian Federation. The conceptual structure of the legislation system arranged in the form of the horizontal line classification by branches of law and the vertical hierarchical system of conceptual metaphor representation is realized through the terminology of the legal discourse. Results and discussion. Conceptualization in the field of metaphor terminology directly reflects the conceptual structure of the law branch. Although there is a broad variety of grounds for classification typology, the conceptualization of knowledge structures depends directly on the branch of law. Legal branch metaphor terms are constructs of a particular branch of legal discourse, which transfer special concepts of mentality regarding the objects of a particular branch of legal discourse. Conclusion. The analysis of the specifics of the institutional legal discourse reveals the conditionality and interdependence of the knowledge conceptualization within metaphor modeling in the legal terminology. The nominative means for the concepts system transfer are based on the terminology concept system and are determined mainly by the legal context (i.e. legal branch). The content of the knowledge structures in the legal discourse terminology is determined and influenced by the evolution of the legal knowledge within the framework of language and socio-cultural community.

Keywords: legal discourse, space conceptualization, legal term, conceptual metaphor

Image-scheme “space” as a semantic foundation in term formation (on the russian legal terminology material) // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2023. Issue 4 (228). P. 35-42

The specifics of conceptual metaphors of the Russian legal terminology structured with SPACE image-schema is being investigated and analyzed. The aim of the article is to establish spatial configurations (trajectories) involved in the conceptual modeling of the Russian legal metaphorical terms and to identify the structures of spatial image-schemas involved in the conceptualization of the abstract concepts (domains) of the conceptual legal metaphorical terms. Spatial metaphorical projections (cognitive mapping) involved in the metaphoric modeling of Russian legal terminology are established. The specificity of the Russian legal metaphorical terms conceptualization is determined. The most frequently involved spatial structures are: SPACE ARRANGEMENT, MOVEMENT IN SPACE, POSITION IN SPACE. The detected image-schemes structure: path and trajectory (SOURCE – PATH – GOAL), the size of an object with dynamic transformation (SCALE), obstacles when moving in space (RESTRAINT), identity (LOCALIZATION), state (CONTAINER), scale (DISTANCE), awareness (LOCATION in RELATION to OBJECT). The specificity of spatial conceptualization of legal metaphorical terms is revealed through the aspect of content and structure. In terms of the content aspect, legal metaphorical terms describe legal events. Actions in legal discourse are conceptualized metaphorically through movements in space and structured via image schemes. This fact explains the variety of trajectories highlighted in spatial configurations. Abstract concepts of the legal sphere on which spatial configurations are projected are: ASSIGNMENTS/ OBLIGATIONS/POWERS and their LIMITS, INSTITUTIONAL COMMUNICATION, the SUBJECT OF MATERIAL RELATIONS and LAW FULFILLMENT in TIME The investigated configurations of spatial conceptualization with the help of image schemes in metaphorical modeling of the terminology of the legal sphere structure the sphere of law in a diverse way, highlighting different aspects of SPACE within metaphorization. The active structures are path, trajectory, size of the object, dynamics of transformation, obstacles to movement, identity, state, scale, awareness in space, vertical orientation. Spatial image – schemes are involved in the conceptualization of events, objects, processes of the institutional professional discourse of the legal sphere and may be found in all branches of law.

Keywords: space, legal metaphor term, image schema